The best Chandan Roy Sanyal’s movies
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Chandan Roy Sanyal’s movies, although you may have ordered them differently. In any case, we hope you love it and with a little luck discovering a movie that you still don’t know about Chandan Roy Sanyal.
Rang De Basanti
8.1/10
After a group of friends graduate from Delhi University, they listlessly haunt their old campus, until a British filmmaker casts them in a film she's making about freedom fighters under British rule. Although the group is largely apolitical, the tragic death of a friend owing to local government corruption awakens their patriotism. Inspired by the freedom fighters they represent in the film, the friends collectively decide to avenge the killing.
Chef
5.7/10
Roshan Kalra is a three-star Michelin chef who gets fired from New York's Gulli restaurant after he punches a customer. Forced to take a break, he flies to Kochi to spend time with his son, Armaan and his estranged wife Radha Menon. It's a fruitful trip because he manages to mend broken family ties. In a bid to help him get his mojo back, his wife suggests he put up his own food truck and begin afresh.
Kaminey
7.4/10
Two brothers, as different as chalk and cheese, find their lives intertwined when one puts himself in danger via a `get rich quick' scheme and the other finds there is a price on his head.
Jazbaa
5.7/10
After her daughter is kidnapped, a lawyer is forced to defend a criminal in exchange for her daughter's freedom.
Jab Harry Met Sejal
5.1/10
After a month-long tour of Europe, Sejal is just about to board her flight to India, when she realises that her engagement ring is lost. In quest of the object, she hires the same tour-guide Harry and together they set off visiting the exact same spots that she and her family visited—in the hope of finding the heirloom. Of course the journey proves to be much more…
Bangistan
4.5/10
Two blundering terrorists with lofty ideologies, but ordinary talent, on a mission to change the world.
F.A.L.T.U.
4.8/10
Three loser friends create a fake university to avoid working for their parents.
Manto
7.3/10
In Bombay's seedy-shiny film world, Manto and his stories are widely read and accepted. But as sectarian violence engulfs the nation, Manto makes the difficult choice of leaving his beloved Bombay. In Lahore, he finds himself bereft of friends and unable to find takers for his writings.
D-Day
7.2/10
Four Indian agents spend nine years under cover to track down India's most wanted criminal.
Jabariya Jodi
4/10
Abhay Singh runs a syndicate of kidnapping greedy grooms, who demand dowry in Bihar’s Madhopur. He then, forcefully marries them off to the girl, calling it a ‘surprise party’. But when his childhood sweetheart Babli re-enters his life, he must choose between love and his long-term ambitions.
Dheet Patangey
7.2/10
A billion dreams came true in 1983 and 2011. Between the two big wins, four cricket-crazy friends set out to find answers and write their destinies.
Ganesh Talkies
5.1/10
Ganesh Talkies is a 2013 Bengali film written and directed by Anjan Dutt. The movie is produced by Reliance Entertainment. It portrays two families of polar opposite Bengali and Marwari communities.
Island City
6.7/10
Winner of FEDORA award for the Best Debut Director, Venice Film Festival 2015, Island City is a collection of three comic-dramatic stories set in Mumbai, India. The first is about a diligent office worker who wins the office ‘Fun Committee Award’, which entitles him to a whole day full of fun, the second about a domineering head-of-the-family, Anil, who is on life support and the third one centers on Aarti whose repetitive existence is slowly making her more and more mechanical and numb. More info: http://www.indiememe.org/island-city-dallas.html
Staying Alive
6/10
Staying Alive is a movie which is based on a true story of a reporter Aditya (Anant Mahadevan). When he experiences heart attack for the third time, he is sent to the intensive cardiac care at a hospital. But fate brings him on the neighboring bed of an underworld kingpin, Shaukat Ali (Saurabh Shukla). Actually it was his love of kebabs which had led him to experience his first heart attack. The 2 inmates of a hospital, who have opposite nature and opposite profession, strike a love-hate relationship with Aditya relaying a few truths about life to Shaukat. Shaukat gets thankful for the pleasure of staying alive even in a life underprivileged of kebabs. The end of the motion picture deals with life as it reveals for a man from the wrong side of the law trying to set things right...would he or would he not succeed? This comedy of black type is all about being thankful at the pleasure of just Staying Alive…
Deep6
An extraordinary story of an ordinary woman Mitul, who strives to change things which appear fossilized.
Tope
6/10
The latest film from Buddhadeb Dasgupta, one of India’s most-celebrated directors, is a lyrical and at times comedic three-part portrait of rural Indian life.
Tell Me O Kkhuda
2.4/10
After finding she was adopted as child, a young woman sets out to look for her biological parents.
Sanak
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The Flight
7/10
A village mechanic dreams of flying. After discovering the crash site of a World War II Japanese plane, Bachchu Mondal decides to rebuild it. His project doesn’t go unnoticed by the ghosts that haunt the place, all victims of broken dreams. The authorities begin investigating Bachchu as a life threatening series of bizarre events conspire.
The Sholay Girl
7.2/10
The journey of Indian film industry's first stunt woman Reshma Pathan, it will trace the life of Reshma and her stint in movies as a body double for various actresses. Bidita Bag plays the lead role of feisty stunt-woman.
